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Launching the OVF Tool as a Helper Process
Last Updated December 19, 2024

You can use the integration options to make it more convenient to launch OVF Tool as a helper process to a client of the vSphere Web Services API, such as a script using Perl bindings.
If you use the
--I:morefArgs
 argument, the values for
--vmFolder
,
--network
,
--net
, and
--datastore
 are interpreted as MoRefs instead of names, as shown in the following example: 
> ovftool --name=vm5 \
                --I:morefArgs \
                --net:VM Network=vim.Network:network-12 \
                --datastore=vim.Datastore:datastore-17 \
                c:\temp\vm1\ \
                vi://root:@localhost?moref=vim.ResourcePool:resgroup-42
Use the
--I:sourceSessionTicket
 or
--I:targetSessionTicket
 options to authenticate with a session ticket retrieved from
SessionManager.AcquireSessionTicket
, when using the vSphere source or destination.

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